Closed Bug 534619 Opened 15 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Easier way to add search provider; add an OpenSearch plugin generator

Categories

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search Plugins, enhancement, P4)

enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WONTFIX
4.x (triaged)

People

(Reporter: winchothu, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [clint eastwood])

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5

On Internet Explorer, it is quite easy to add a search provider.  I just have to go to manage search provider, add search provider, then add custom search provider.

http://www.ieaddons.com/gb/createsearch.aspx

Reproducible: Always
Severity: normal → enhancement
Are you requesting a link somewhere in Firefox to something like that page? (it works fine in Firefox, by the way; they both use OpenSearch) There's plenty of other pages like that. (ex: http://www.searchplugins.net/generate.aspx) addons.mozilla.org is already linked to from the manage dialog. Might be nice if AMO just had one build in it.
I think it should be clearer like the IE page:

http://www.ieaddons.com/en/searchproviders

Look at the bottom where it says create custom serch engine...
I am going to kick this to AMO, so they can improve their way to find search providers.
Component: General → Search Plugins
Product: Firefox → addons.mozilla.org
QA Contact: general → search-plugins
Thu wants a generator, not just a big list.

I think maybe pointing users to Mycroft's generator might be sufficient:
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/submitos.html

Currently, under "Additional Resources" on the left side of the page you noted, there's a link to Mycroft and an MDC article on the actual format. The latter probably isn't that useful to most users here, so maybe replace it with a link to the generator? If we really wanted to, a simple generator could be added to AMO itself, I guess.
OS: Windows 7 → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: Easier way to add search provider → Easier way to add search provider; add an OpenSearch plugin generator
A search engine generator would be a pretty awesome tool. Most search engines are trivial and could be easily created by the user with some help. I would prefer that than shopping around through a dozen amazon search add-ons.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Priority: -- → P4
Target Milestone: --- → 4.x (triaged)
Whiteboard: [clint eastwood]
Thanks for filing this.  Due to resource constraints we are closing bugs which we won't realistically be able to fix.  If you have a patch that applies to this bug please reopen.

For more info see http://micropipes.com/blog/2014/09/24/the-great-add-on-bug-triage/
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: addons.mozilla.org → addons.mozilla.org Graveyard
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